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Genevieve

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  • Dodger | [Terry Pratchett]
    Dodger
    UNABRIDGED

    Dodger

    • UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 30 mins)
    • By Terry Pratchett
    • Narrated By Stephen Briggs
    Overall
    (523)
    Performance
    (478)
    Story
    (469)

    A storm. Rain-lashed city streets. A flash of lightning. A scruffy lad sees a girl leap desperately from a horse-drawn carriage in a vain attempt to escape her captors. Can the lad stand by and let her be caught again? Of course not, because he's...Dodger. Seventeen-year-old Dodger may be a street urchin, but he gleans a living from London's sewers, and he knows a jewel when he sees one. He's not about to let anything happen to the unknown girl - not even if her fate impacts the most powerful people in England.

    Snoodely says: "Finally Revealed: Where Dickens Got His Ideas!"
    "Delightful!"
    Overall
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    Any additional comments?

    A joy to read/listen to. Good story, great wit and humor, fine narration. One of those I will read again some day just for the fun of it.

    2 of 2 people found this review helpful
  • The Innocent: A Novel | [David Baldacci]
    The Innocent: A Novel
    UNABRIDGED

    The Innocent: A Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 14 mins)
    • By David Baldacci
    • Narrated By Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (2047)
    Performance
    (1625)
    Story
    (1634)

    Will Robie may have just made the first - and last - mistake of his career.... It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable: He refuses to kill. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people.

    Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a 14-year-old runaway from a foster home. But she isn't an ordinary runaway....

    andrea says: "I Hope There's a Sequel!!"
    "Great!"
    Overall
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    What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

    Ron McLarty is great as usual, 5 stars. Why clutter up a good thing with a not so great for the character female voice and cheesy sound effects?


    Any additional comments?

    I completely and thoroughly enjoyed this read, once I got over two voices and sound effects. Actually, I don't even remember hearing them by the end of the book, but they must have been there. And who cares if the hit man is lovable? Lovable is good! Makes for a much more sympathetic character. Relax and enjoy a great Baldacci ride.

    0 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • American Gods | [Neil Gaiman]
    American Gods
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    American Gods

    • UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 50 mins)
    • By Neil Gaiman
    • Narrated By George Guidall
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (4500)
    Performance
    (1413)
    Story
    (1418)

    For the three years Shadow spent in prison, all he wanted was to get back to the loving arms of his wife and stay out of trouble for the rest of his life. But days before his release, he learns that his wife has been killed in an accident, and his world becomes a colder place.

    Joseph says: "Amazing, powerful book about America."
    "I'm Finding Gods Everywhere"
    Overall
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    What about George Guidall’s performance did you like?

    George Guidall is wonderful. I will read a book that he reads just because he's reading it.


    Any additional comments?

    A really fun and thought-provoking book. Enjoyed every minute of it. And as I look around the world I live in, I see these new gods everywhere!

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Boat of a Million Years | [Poul Anderson]
    The Boat of a Million Years
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    The Boat of a Million Years

    • UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 16 mins)
    • By Poul Anderson
    • Narrated By Tom Weiner
    Overall
    (61)
    Performance
    (48)
    Story
    (49)

    Others have written science fiction on the theme of immortality, but in The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson made it his own. Early in human history, certain individuals were born who live on—unaging, undying—through the centuries and millennia. This story follows them over two thousand years, up to our time and beyond—to the promise of utopia, and to the challenge of the stars.

    Michael says: "Long winded and boring..."
    "Terrible narration"
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    Was The Boat of a Million Years worth the listening time?

    I read this book when it first came out in the late 80's, and it has been in my thoughts ever since. So for maybe 25 years I have, with some regularity, thought back to it. Very few books affect me in this way.I was delighted when it came out in audio form, and spent a whole credit on it.

    I still have not finished it. The narration is the most uninspired and monotonous I have ever experienced in a audio fiction book. Akin to a bad lecturer in a subject I'm not really interested in.

    Don't waste your credits for this terrible rendition of a wonderful book.


    2 of 2 people found this review helpful

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